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Qatar Foundation offers travel fellowships to scholars
The Peninsula

DOHA - Fellowships for travel and accommodation are available for scholars of Islamic art to attend the Hamad bin Khalifa symposium on Islamic art to be held at the Virginia Commonwealth University Schools of the Arts in Qatar (VCUQ) from November 4 to November 6.

The symposium is titled Rivers of Paradise: Water in Islamic Art and Culture. The Qatar Foundation and VCUQ are offering 15 Hamad Bin Khalifa travel fellowships. Online applications must be submitted by June 1.

The Symposium on Islamic Art strives to foster the development of an international community of researchers and scholars in Islamic art and cultures.

The fellowship provides financial support for conference attendance and recognition of scholars from diverse geographic and cultural areas, including those from the less developed and less well-funded countries, said a release yesterday.

Thirteen speakers from around the world from a variety of disciplines will explore the theme of water in the Islamic lands from southern Europe to South Asia from the seventh century to the present.

Topics range from the supply and distribution of water to its role in religion and popular culture.

Sheila S Blair and Jonathan M Bloom, shared holders of the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at VCU and the Norma Jean Calderwood University Chair of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College, and curators of the acclaimed current exhibition of Islamic art Cosmophilia, are convening the conference.

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